The Tame and the Wild
People and Animals after 1492
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2026
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-30354-6 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-30354-6 (ISBN)
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Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between European and Native American beliefs about animal life that transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world.
When the first European colonizers arrived in the Americas, they were utterly dependent on the dogs and horses who assisted them in military campaigns as well as the livestock who provided them with food and labor. These settlers were convinced that their use of domesticated animals made them superior to Indigenous peoples, who did not practice livestock agriculture. In The Tame and the Wild, however, Marcy Norton shows that Indigenous ways of relating to animals were as sophisticated—and consequential—as those developed by other peoples across the Atlantic.
Like Europeans, Indigenous people throughout the Caribbean, Amazonia, and Mexico hunted wild animals. Yet, instead of raising domesticated livestock, Indigenous communities engaged in familiarization: they captured and tamed wild animals—from monkeys and parrots to sloths and manatees—whom they made into kin. Familiarization not only affected Indigenous responses to the invasions but also shaped European culture by influencing natural sciences and the emergence of the modern pet.
A sweeping history of human-animal relationships in the centuries after 1492, The Tame and the Wild explains the origins of a contemporary paradox: the fact that humans continue to create enormous suffering for some animals while enjoying companionship with others.
A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world.
When the first European colonizers arrived in the Americas, they were utterly dependent on the dogs and horses who assisted them in military campaigns as well as the livestock who provided them with food and labor. These settlers were convinced that their use of domesticated animals made them superior to Indigenous peoples, who did not practice livestock agriculture. In The Tame and the Wild, however, Marcy Norton shows that Indigenous ways of relating to animals were as sophisticated—and consequential—as those developed by other peoples across the Atlantic.
Like Europeans, Indigenous people throughout the Caribbean, Amazonia, and Mexico hunted wild animals. Yet, instead of raising domesticated livestock, Indigenous communities engaged in familiarization: they captured and tamed wild animals—from monkeys and parrots to sloths and manatees—whom they made into kin. Familiarization not only affected Indigenous responses to the invasions but also shaped European culture by influencing natural sciences and the emergence of the modern pet.
A sweeping history of human-animal relationships in the centuries after 1492, The Tame and the Wild explains the origins of a contemporary paradox: the fact that humans continue to create enormous suffering for some animals while enjoying companionship with others.
Marcy Norton is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the award-winning Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the John Carter Brown Library.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 568 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-30354-7 / 0674303547 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-30354-6 / 9780674303546 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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